"In a 1988 series for the Philadelphia Inquirer,
“The CIA’s Leaking Pipeline,” Tim Weiner found that weapons for the Afghan
resistance were being diverted to the armies of opium lords. The CIA admitted
one of every five dollars in war material bound for the mujahedeen “disappeared.”
It was during the mujahedeen war that the Afghan-Pakistan “Golden Crescent”
overtook Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle” as the top source of global heroin.

This didn’t slow down the Reagan administration. Following
a 1986 bid by CIA director William Casey, Congress approved Pentagon advisors
and hundreds of Stinger missiles for the mujahedeen.

Support for the mujahedeen led directly to the emergence
of Al Qaeda. In 1984, Osama bin Laden arrived in Peshawar, the Pakistan border
city then serving as the mujahedeen’s staging area, and trans-shipment point
for their heroin. It was there he established his Maktab al-Khidmat (”services
center”), or MAK, a clearinghouse for mujahedeen volunteers from the Arab
world, where they were armed, indoctrinated and dispatched to the front. CIA
money flowed into the MAK through Pakistan’s secret service. Osama assumed
command of the MAK in 1989, the same year the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan.
He quickly transformed the MAK into his Al Qaeda network of trained terrorists."

whose bin laden? our bin laden!bought and paid for by the good ol' u s of a.

"These
men, here to coordinate their economic, financial,
and trade policies, stand at the helm
of the global economy.
Of course, the global economy is like the 400-pound
gorilla
that sits wherever it wants..."continued>>>>>>